Reader Ryan writes in with his ubergeeky method for sending emails to himself directly from Launchy—a very useful trick to quickly send yourself reminders.

To accomplish this hack, Ryan assembled a visual basic script (VBS) file that sends the email using Gmail's SMTP server—the email addresses are hard-coded but the subject line can be entered directly in Launchy.

If you want to use this trick for yourself, there's just a few steps to follow along—first, create a new *.vbs file and paste in the following contents, modifying the bold text with your own values.

Now that you have your script created and ready to go, open up Launchy's Plugins tab in the options panel, and create a new Runner command pointing to the script. The key step here is to use "$$" in the arguments field—the quotes are important!

Since the example uses "tome" as the command, you can just type "tome" into Launchy, hit the tab key, and then type the subject of the email message. If all goes well, you should see a new email in your Gmail account with the same subject line.

This tip can be used for much more than just sending yourself emails, however—you can make a copy of the script and adjust the To field to quickly send emails to Remember the Milk or any number of other services that accept new items via email. You could even modify the script further to pass in further parameters to your RTM tasks if you really wanted to get geeky with it.Thanks, Ryan!